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1. Web apps are an order of magnitude easier to develop than iPad apps. I'm not sure I agree with that. Applications with limited UI are easier as webapps if y

by jws 17y ago

1. Web apps are an order of magnitude easier to develop than iPad apps. I'm not sure I agree with that. Applications with limited UI are easier as webapps if you forget all the other browsers you might want to be compatible with. Native apps live in a wonderfully deterministic world, albeit with a target market of one to three-ish devices. Personally I'm looking forward to counting how many "flashlight" applications there are on release day! Currently there 240 apps that return for "flashlight", almost all of which are competing for the ever lucrative I want more light than my wallpaper lets through market.

stanleydrew 17y ago
Yeah i think I agree with you. Web apps require knowledge of a ton of software layers, not least of which is the web server/client architecture and protocols. To the extent that native apps are also communicating with remote services there is probably not much difference, but many native apps are built to stand alone which, in my opinion, makes them an order of magnitude easier to develop.